Yu Qian stared at the map, his eyebrows furrowed tightly, almost twisted into a knot.
This time, the Ming army gathered Mohe Guards, Duoyan Guards, and Beishan Guards, totaling ten thousand people. Carrying sophisticated weapons and equipment, the Ming army divided into two groups and headed north to directly attack the lair of the remaining Tatar troops.
Since the beginning of the war, the Tatar tribe has been retreating steadily, and the Ming army has hardly encountered any decent resistance on the frontal battlefield.
As the head coach, Yu Qian's face showed no joy at all after winning the battle.
Jingyuan was very puzzled and couldn't help but ask: "Yu Shangshu, why do you look like we have lost the battle?"
Yu Qian shook his head slowly and said: "Don't make fun of me, Julu Hou, I just feel that something is wrong."
Jingyuan asked: "What's wrong?"
Yu Qian pointed to the map and said: "Since the encounter here, every time we have a confrontation, the enemy has just fled, and they don't even have the courage to resist!"
"Our army is as powerful as a rainbow, but the opponent is just a group of defeated soldiers, like lost dogs. How can we compete with the heavenly soldiers?"
The most important military task of Jingyuan to guard Mohe was to prevent the escaped Tatars from coming back.
Over the years, he had been on guard every day. Except for the occasional small group of bandits, he had never seen the main force of the Tatar tribe.
If Beishanwei had not discovered traces of the Tatar tribe in Liugui Country, he would have thought that these people would have died of cold and starvation.
However, Yu Qian didn't think so.
"Since the beginning of the war, our army has been in unstoppable strength and has won successive battles. However, in the end, the number of enemies we killed was only a mere hundred, and they were all old, weak, sick and disabled. Marquis Julu, do you think this is normal?"
Jingyuan still said disapprovingly: "It's freezing cold here, and you have to use a stick to urinate. It's already very difficult to survive. How can you still have fighting power?"
"I still feel something is wrong. There is something wrong with this battle..."
Yu Qian had a dark face and kept shaking his head.
He felt something was wrong, but he couldn't figure out what was wrong.
But based on years of experience, I feel that things are not that simple.
Jingyuan said: "Don't we have prisoners? It will be clear after a trial!"
Yu Qian sighed and said, "After the interrogation, these people seem to know nothing."
"They are just being stubborn, I will go and judge them!"
Jing Yuan volunteered and walked out of the tent.
After only an hour, he came back cursing.
"Damn, you're so tough-talking. You stripped off all your clothes and threw them outside. Everyone was frozen into popsicles. You just refused to do anything!"
Seeing Jing Yuan's angry look, Yu Qian knew that he must not have asked anything.
However, he was prepared and said: "These people are obviously abandoned. It's not that they are unwilling to recruit, but they really don't know."
"Abandoned son?"
Jing Yuan frowned and said, "Tou Tuo Bu Hua only has such a small number of troops, how can he still give up?"
"This is what I noticed was wrong!"
Yu Qian pointed to the map and marked several red crosses on the marching route, all of which had been fought.
"Look here!"
Jingyuan came closer and said, "Is there something fishy about these places?"
"Do you feel that the other party is deliberately leading us to the north?"
"its not right!"
Jingyuan thought for a moment, slowly shook his head, and said: "We all decide the combat route on the spur of the moment. How could Tuotuo Buhua know it in advance?"
"I didn't say that he knew it in advance, but I said that every decision we make may have been arranged by the enemy in advance!"
"How... how to arrange this?"
“It’s easy!”
Yu Qian clicked on the map a few times and said: "As long as we leave some defeated soldiers at these points as bait, we can easily be led by the nose!"
Jingyuan's expression became serious and he asked: "If it is really a trap by the enemy, what will they do next? Will they gather us together and annihilate them?"
"I thought so at the beginning. However, given the equipment gap between us and the opponent, if we want to encircle and annihilate our troops, we will need at least five times, or even ten times, or twenty times the strength. The remaining Tatar troops can survive on this land.
It’s very difficult to get down, how could there be so many people?”
"If that's the case, then... what's their purpose for doing this?"
Yu Qian slowly shook his head and said truthfully: "I can't figure it out!"
Jingyuan slapped the table and said angrily: "Now that things have come to this, it's better to just kill him and fight all the way to the opponent's lair to see what conspiracy this old dog Tuo Tuo Bu Hua is brewing!"
Yu Qian said: "I'm afraid that the other party's lair is not in the north at all!"
According to common sense, the more enemies there are, the closer to the opponent's lair.
Therefore, the Ming army followed the opponent's strongholds all the way and tried to find Tuo Tuo Bu Hua's base camp.
Now it seems like it was arranged by the other party in advance.
If this is the case, the opponent's base camp must not be in this direction!
Jingyuan also thought of this, but there was one question that he still couldn't figure out.
"It is impossible for our troops to be defeated by our troops. What's the use of these little tricks?"
"It is precisely because he has no chance of winning that he takes risks and seeks a surprise victory."
"How to win by surprise?"
Yu Qian still shook his head: "I don't know!"
Jingyuan was helpless and said: "Let's not worry so much. The army will drive over and no matter what plots and tricks he has, it will be in vain!"
Yu Qian nodded. Jing Yuan's idea was right. In the face of absolute strength, any conspiracy and trick would be useless.
But the question is, where is this grandson hiding?
The temperature here is extremely low. Although the Ming army was equipped with cotton-padded clothes, they could not stay there for a long time.
Could it be that Tuo Tuo Bu Hua had calculated this correctly and used some old, weak, sick and disabled people with no fighting ability to attract his attention, and tricked himself into walking in circles on the ice field. When the food was almost consumed, he would naturally withdraw his troops.
When he expressed this idea, Jingyuan nodded and said, "That's true. We can't continue to waste time with him."
Fighting a war is not an easy task. Nowadays, the equipment and supplies of the Ming army are almost the same as throwing money at them.
Tuo Tuo Bu Hua belongs to those who are barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes, just like one is a wealthy landowner and the other is a poor bare-chested beggar.
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If they can find a way to confuse the situation, delay it for a while, and consume a large amount of the Ming army's supplies, it will already be a win for Tuo Tuo Bu Hua.
Yu Qian said: "Our direction must be adjusted, and we can no longer be led by the other party's nose!"
Jing Yuan nodded solemnly and said: "Yes, we will take the initiative next, but the information we have is very limited, and we are not yet sure where Tuo Tuo Bu Hua's base camp is."
Yu Qian pondered for a moment and slowly said two words: "Split the troops!"
As he spoke, he opened the map again and said: "Our troops are divided into two groups. The Mobei Guards continue to pursue to paralyze the opponent. I will lead the Duoyan Guards to find the real base camp of Tuotuo Buhua!"
"There are no clues now, how can you find them?"
"It's easy, just do the opposite!"
Yu Qian made a few circles on the map and said: "No matter where the enemy plans to lead us, we only need to search in the opposite direction and we will definitely find something."
Jingyuan stared at the map for a long time, and kept scratching it with his fingers, and finally...
"maritime?"
According to the current offensive route, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua's base camp should be in the north, where the temperature is lower and the consumption is greater.
However, if what Yu Qian said is right, then all this is just a trap.
If you look at it the other way around, Tuo Tuo Bu Hua is probably hiding in a port on the southern coast of China, or even on an island near the coastline.
This sea area is located between Mohewei and Liugui Kingdom. The merchant ships of the Ming Dynasty cannot travel this far, so the route has not yet been opened.
If Tuotuo Buhua was really hiding on an island somewhere in the sea, it would be really difficult to find him.
Now that things have happened, Jingyuan feels more and more that what Yu Qian said is right.
"Let's do this, I'll take the Mohe Guards to search, and you take the Duoyan Guards to continue the pursuit!"
Yu Qian rolled his eyes at him and said: "There are old, weak, sick and disabled people in front of us, so we don't need too many troops."
"Master Yu, since you know that there is no battle ahead, why do you still let Mohe Guards fight in vain?"
"If we stop chasing, the other party will definitely notice. If we let them run away this time, it will be even harder to find them in the future!"
"That's why I suggested that the three guards of Duoyan should pursue them. They have six thousand men. With two thousand less than me, we can't do much. But we, the Mohe Guards, have fewer people. On the contrary, we can take the old dog out of Tuo Tuo Bu Hua by surprise.
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Yu Qian thought for a long time and said: "How about this, let the three Duoyan guards continue the pursuit, and you and I will lead the Mohe Guards to search south."
Jingyuan asked in confusion: "Are we both going?"
In this battle, Yu Qian was the coach and Jing Yuan was the deputy coach. It was really inappropriate for both of them to withdraw at the same time.
Yu Qian nodded and said: "I can't control that much, just leave the battlefield ahead to the three guards of Duoyan!"
"Okay, I'll explain it to you!"
Jingyuan is impatient, so since he has decided, he will make arrangements on the same day.
The 6,000 men of Duoyan Sanwei continued to penetrate deeper, while the Mohe Guards turned south and placed their targets near the coastline.
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Five days later, Song Guxi received the information from Li Shenghe.
Although she has not been to the battlefield in person, the information from the front will be sent back in time. Every time, she will carefully analyze the battle situation and give instructions to Li Shenghe.
"Huh?"
This time, when she heard the news about the division of troops ahead, her willow eyebrows began to frown.
"Why did Shangshu and Marquis Julu split their forces..."
Li Shenghe didn't know the true purpose of Yu Qian and Jingyuan, he only knew that the front lines were divided.
Song Guxi was very thoughtful, and when she saw this information, she immediately began to think about it.
After a while, she relaxed her eyebrows and said with a smile: "That's it!"
Immediately afterwards, she ordered someone to get a cinnabar pen and circled some marks on the map.
"Send it to the front line and tell Li Shenghe that it must be handed over to Mr. Yu."
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Yu Qian unfolded the map and saw the location circled with a red pen on it, and the expression on his face suddenly became solemn.
Jingyuan was puzzled and asked: "What's wrong with this picture?"
Yu Qian asked: "Marquis Julu, since you guarded Mohe, do you know the situation along the nearby coast?"
Jingyuan scratched his head and said: "The situation at sea is limited to Sakhalin Island."
Yu Qian nodded, put down the map, and said, "It seems that Beishan Guard has done enough work!"
"What is the significance of these locations?"
"I can't tell you the deep meaning, it's just some places where you can live, or in other words, it's the most likely hiding place for Tuo Tuo Bu Hua!"
Jing Yuan was a little surprised and said: "This Li Shenghe knows a lot!"
"It's not Li Shenghe!"
Yu Qian shook his head and said, "It's Song Guxi."
"Song Guxi..."
A mysterious smile appeared on Jingyuan's face, and he asked: "Is the emperor's concubine still capable of this?"
"This woman is not simple!"
Yu Qian didn't want to explain too much to him, so he said: "Just search according to the location provided in this picture!"
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Three days later, an abandoned port was discovered.
Yu Qian and Jingyuan checked inside and out, but there was no one there.
"This port is abandoned, damn it, it's all for nothing."
Yu Qian stretched out his hand and wiped it on the table. There was not much dust, and then said: "The furnishings inside are still very new. It doesn't look like it is abandoned. It seems like someone knew we were coming and ran away in advance!"
Jingyuan suddenly became excited and asked: "So, are we heading in the right direction?"
Yu Qian nodded and said: "It should be so!"
Jingyuan hurriedly asked: "Then what should we do next?"
"Get the map!"
The two of them stared at the map closely. Yu Qian pointed to the south and said, "Look here, is there an island?"
"good!"
"This port is very small and not prepared for large ships. It would make sense if it were a small ship traveling between the land and the island."
"Then... let's go take a look?"
“Of course I want to go!”
Jingyuan gave an order and dispatched five ships from Mobei Guard to attack the islands on the map.
boom!
Just as the ship was approaching the island, a low sound of cannon was heard.
Jingyuan first lay down subconsciously, then got up and looked at a place a few feet away from him, where there were only a few waves left on the water.
"This is a solid bullet, not our Ming Dynasty's cannon!"
Yu Qian nodded and said: "It seems that we are heading in the right direction!"
Jingyuan was very excited and immediately ordered to advance at full speed.
Until the five ships docked, a total of four muffled sounds were heard.
However, all four shells fell into the cold sea water, causing only a few splashes.
As you can imagine, this kind of artillery not only has a slow loading speed, but also has major problems with aiming.
Especially for forts located in ports, the orientation and angle are fixed and difficult to adjust.
When the few people on the fort saw the Ming army coming in droves, they immediately gave up resistance, yelled, and retreated to the rear.
When Yu Qian heard the shouts of these people, he immediately frowned.
"Is it a Japanese pirate?"
Jingyuan nodded and said: "It sounds like it, I don't know if it is true or not, I'll go and catch him!"
The Ming army marched forward in formation and soon saw a walled city.
The soldiers of Mohe Guard did not carry large siege equipment, but when a few grenades were thrown over, the simple city wall made of stones and wood was like paper, and a large gap was blown out in an instant.
"kill!"
The Ming army was as powerful as a rainbow and poured in like a tide!